Duplicate Titles and Sitemap rel=alternate
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Hello,
Does anyone know why I still have duplicate titles after crawling with moz (also google webmasters shows the same) even after I implemented (since 1 week or 2) a new sitemap with rel=alternate attribute for languges? In fact, the duplicates should be in the titles like http://socialengagement.it/su-di-me and http://socialengagement.it/en/su-di-me.
The sitemap is on socialengagement.it/sitemap.xml (please note formatting somehow does not show correctly, you should see the source code to double check if its done properly. Was made by hand by me).
Thanks for help!
Eugenio
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That's correct Keri! When determining whether something is a duplicate or not we will use the on-page information itself.
Thanks!
Joel. -
I'm pretty sure that we don't look at the sitemap when determining duplicate content and titles, and am going to have someone from our help team confirm this.
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